12,875 people (2024 Census estimate, −1.6% since 2020)
483 square miles of land · 27 people per square mile
“Highest” and “lowest” are just order, not grades: a high rank for poverty or hazard losses means more of it. Each figure's source is in its section below.
2 active community water systems list Lewis County in the area they serve, reporting 9,829 people served in all (a system that crosses county lines counts its whole population).
| VANCEBURG ELECTRIC PLANT BOARD buys surface water · local government · KY0680438 | 6,921 served |
| GARRISON QUINCY HEIGHTS WATER DISTRICT groundwater · local government · KY0680153 | 2,908 served |
Source: U.S. EPA Safe Drinking Water Information System (SDWIS), active community systems, . Look up any system's violations and test results with EPA's search using its ID.
About 40 people were held in Lewis County's jail, in Vera's latest figure (2024), or 502 per 100,000 residents ages 15–64. In 2019 it was about 93.
Source: Vera Institute of Justice, Incarceration Trends (built from federal Bureau of Justice Statistics jail surveys). Counties without their own jail, or that share one, may show no figure.
1 school district has its office in Lewis County. School taxes are usually the largest part of a property tax bill.
Spent $43 million — $28.4 million to run schools, about $13,940 per student, plus $12.8 million on buildings and equipment. Money in: $5.5 million local (mostly property tax), $22.5 million state, $8.9 million federal. Long-term debt: $49.2 million.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2023 Annual Survey of School System Finances. Districts are listed by the county of their main office; some serve neighboring counties too.
Source: County Health Rankings & Roadmaps 2025 (University of Wisconsin Population Health Institute), which gathers federal data (CDC, Census, and others); measures cover different recent years. Blank lines aren't reported for small counties.
Overall risk: Very Low compared with other U.S. counties. FEMA estimates natural hazards cost Lewis County about $9.5 million a year on average in buildings, crops and lives. Ability to bounce back (community resilience): Very Low; social vulnerability: Relatively High.
Source: FEMA National Risk Index (December 2025), expected annual loss. Ratings compare counties nationwide; they're estimates, not predictions.
149 bridges in Lewis County: 40 in good condition, 103 fair, and 6 poor (4.0%). “Poor” means a main part — the deck, the beams, or the supports — is rated 4 or lower on the federal 0–9 scale. It doesn't mean unsafe to drive; unsafe bridges are closed.
| KY-57 over SYCAMORE CREEK · built 1948 | 233 vehicles a day |
| KY-559 over KINNICONICK CREEK · built 1967 | 177 vehicles a day |
| KY-1068 over LAUREL FORK · built 1958 | 170 vehicles a day |
| KY-1021 over BRIERY CREEK · built 1969 | 160 vehicles a day |
| KY-1021 over BRIERY CREEK · built 1975 | 160 vehicles a day |
| CR-1300 over Little Sulphur · built 2006 | 26 vehicles a day |
Source: Federal Highway Administration, National Bridge Inventory (2025 submission). Includes state, county and city bridges.
Federal grants paid for $3.4 million of work in Lewis County in fiscal 2025, about $260 per resident — to the county, cities, schools, hospitals, nonprofits and others.
Source: USAspending.gov, grants by place of performance, fiscal 2025 (Oct. 2024 to Sept. 2025). Search it by county to see each award.
From Grants.gov: posted grants listing county governments as eligible, soonest deadline first; research-only and overseas programs left out; list updated 2026-10-13, refreshed weekly. 62 are open in all. Cities, towns, school districts and nonprofits have their own lists there.
Registration deadlines, early voting and polling places for Kentucky are on the federal site vote.gov, which links to the state's official election office.
The budget, property tax rates, audits, local officials and offices for Lewis County come from the county's own records, which we haven't gathered — not gathered, never hidden. See what a full county site looks like, or ask to have Lewis County built: brayden.ozark@gmail.com.
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Nearby counties: Fleming County (21 mi) · Adams County, OH (21 mi) · Rowan County (23 mi) · Carter County (23 mi) · Greenup County (24 mi) · Mason County (25 mi).